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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Ivan Turgenev

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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Cultivation
I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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heavy Pass Return
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Autocracy Source Sweet
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Mediocre
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Spoil
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Oneself Soar
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Friendly
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.

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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Jealous
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ego
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Meadow
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.

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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.

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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Temple Workshop
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Detail Harsh

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